Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.